For use with African History courses: a web site with notes in English from a small selection of records at the National Archives of Mali, plus photos and related materials. See also: the entire African History website.

An extensive collection of travel photographs of people, landscapes, and cultural sites among the Dogon and the Lobi of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana; plus images from along the Niger River in Mali. Note: individual photos are labelled, but there are no explanatory captions.
-- See especially: "Malian Architecture" photo album

EthnoAtlas Culture Summary: Dogon (Centre for Social Anthropology & Computing, University of Kent)

This profile is part of a larger collection of text files, created in January 1995, are based on information from old monographs and reference works published in the 1970s or earlier.

A summary of the 1997 project on the archæogical and historical sites of Jenne-Jeno along the Upper Niger River in Mali, West Africa. The project was designed as a way of teaching archæology to middle and high school students. There are lots of interesting photographs, maps, diagrams, and links to other archaeology sites on the Net.

The website includes information about the association's publications and activities, its by-laws, a selection of photographs on Mande culture and daily life, a cultural map; plus related links. "[Founded in 1986] MANSA was organized to increase and encourage communication between scholars interested in all topics of study involving the Mande peoples of West Africa, and the neighbors with whom they interact on a regular basis."

Excerpts from a photographic collection on the work of this world-renown Malian artist published on CD-ROM by Lux Modernis/Communications Multimedia of Paris, plus a very short interview. Warning: there are no identifying captions with the image files.

"...a non-governmental organization that has a mission to protect and safeguard Mali's ancient manuscripts consisting of private libraries that own important historical manuscripts that document the rich legacy of West Africa's cultural and intellectual history."

This site offers a history of the project, recent project news, information about publications, and two full text e-books. "...[The project] first conceptualised in 2002, was officially established in 2003 to research and document manuscript tradition in Africa. Over the past seven years a Project team has been involved in the study of manuscript tradition in Africa, including manuscript translation, digitalisation and historical studies of book and library traditions."